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Site Name: Thanjavur

Date: ca 1000-1099 CE

Subject: Back; Chandikesvara - a servant of Siva

Site Name: Thanjavur

Date: ca 1200-1299 CE

Subject: Jnanasambandar/Jnana Sambanda is considered to be the third greatest ancient teacher of Saivism

Site Name: Thanjavur

Date: ca 1200-1299 CE

Subject: Head, from left; Jnana Sambanda is considered to be the third greatest ancient teacher of Saivism [Jnanasambandar]

Site Name: Thanjavur

Date: ca 1500-1699 CE

Subject: Profile, from right, Hanuman

Site Name: Thanjavur

Date: ca 1500-1699 CE

Subject: Back, Hanuman

Site Name: Tonk

Date: 1930 CE

Subject: Photo source: Ruling Princes and Chiefs of India, Bombay: Times of India Press,1930, pp. 70. Tonk's nawabs were descended from the Pindari leader Amir Khan, who agreed to abandon his pillaging in 1817 in return for English guarantees of some of his conquests. Tonk included three separate districts in Central India and three in Rajputana. [Nawab Muhammed Ibrahim Ali Khan]

Site Name: Tripura

Date:

Subject: Published: S. Playne, Bengal and Assam Behar and Orissa: Their History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources, London: Foreign & Colonial Compiling & Publishing Co. 1917, pp. 462. [Birendra Kishor of Tripura Enthroned]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 5, Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden in Trikuta mountain; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 5, Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden in Trikuta mountain: Silver mountain; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 5, Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden in Trikuta mountain: Gajendra and gold mountain; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Gajendra and his herd entering the lake in Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6a, Gajendra seized by the crocodile; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6a, Gajendra seized by the crocodile: baby elephants; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6a, Gajendra seized by the crocodile: crocodile in lake; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6b, Gajendra praying to Visnu; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 11, Visnu frees Gajendra from crocodile; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Uprooting of Mount Mandara; upper panel: Gods and Asuras trying to uproot the mountain; lower panel: Visnu transporting Mount Mandara to the ocean of milk; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Churning of the ocean; left half: mountain sinks for want of support, while asuras argue to hold the head of the serpent Vasuki; right half: Visnu assumes the form of tortoise to support the mountain and asuras succeed in getting hold of the head of the snake; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Churning of the ocean; mountain sinks for want of support, while asuras argue to hold the head of the serpent Vasuki: the Gods; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Siva tells Parvati of his duty to drink the poison that came out of the ocean; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Siva drinks the poison; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: The oceans yielding the divine cow, Surabhi; the Apsaras; the white horse, Uccaihsravas; the white elephant, Airavata; the Parijata tree, and Laksmi; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: First yields of the ocean: Surabhi (the divine cow), the Apsaras and Uccaihsravas (the white horse), with asuras in foreground; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

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